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Groundwater document library

Alphabetical list of groundwater-related publications.

Fact sheets

  • Available water determinations for groundwater fact sheet (PDF 298.7 KB)
  • Groundwater and drought fact sheet (PDF 270.3 KB)
  • Reducing groundwater allocations fact sheet (PDF 283.2 KB)

Groundwater vulnerability maps and notes

  • Castlereagh vulnerability map (PDF 1.6 MB)
    • Explanatory notes (PDF 332.1 KB)
  • Lachlan vulnerability map (PDF 169.0 KB)
    • Explanatory notes (PDF 509.9 KB)
  • Macintyre vulnerability map (PDF 2.5 MB)
    • Explanatory notes (PDF 340.9 KB)
  • Macquarie vulnerability map (PDF 158.2 KB)
    • Explanatory notes (PDF 334.6 KB)

Minimum requirements

  • Minimum requirements for building site groundwater investigations and reporting (PDF 686.8 KB)
  • Minimum requirements for pump testing of water bores in NSW (PDF 2.8 MB)

Reports

  • Characterisation of hydrogeochemistry and risks to groundwater quality–impact of groundwater pumping on groundwater quality (PDF 9.4 MB)
  • Methods for the identification of high probability groundwater dependent vegetation ecosystems (PDF 8.6 MB)

More reports are on the science reporting section of our website. These include:

  • Groundwater resource descriptions
  • Groundwater summary reports
  • Other reports
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